“The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore” – PJ Harvey. When I need release I plug in, turn my amp up loud and rip this out. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5AjPyxaPI
This new video from PJ Harvey is stunning. The song, ‘Written On The Forehead’, does an amazing job of being a shimmering thing of beauty, as Polly starts off singing about “throwing dinars at the belly dancers” and it is only then that the import of the lyrical content is realised. For me, this is …
Two nights sold out at the Troxy (London), so that’s 5,200 people keen to be there. I made it for the Monday night, queued from 4:40 pm, seal-cold in not enough clothes in the Commercial Road. It’s chill in Tower Hamlets. Thought I was eighth in the queue but some people it turned out were …
Here’s the Fresh Air interview with PJ Harvey.
[Do English people write and express themselves better than Americans, Australians, Canadians or anyone, really, because they invented the language, forcing us to continue playing “catch up” after all the centuries? Below is Englander Mike Hughes on PJ Harvey. – EPB] “God damn Europeans, take me back to beautiful England” – LOL at PJ being …
This is BernardStreetCred’s take on PJ Harvey‘s version of “Wang Dang Doodle“: “I like PJ, and I love almost all covers on principle — but here’s an instance where the singer and song don’t quite match up, despite what seems like a clever fit (her cover of Highway 61 Revisited that’s floating around out there …
Here’s is John Siscoe‘s take on Koko Taylor and “Wang Dang Doodle“: “Despite the antiseptic setting and lackluster backing, this is a valuable clip. Any blues performance from the ’60s is a relative rarity, and this gives us a look at Koko Taylor when she was young and in her prime, plus a fleeting glimpse …